Michael Vidrine

“Neglect of watching, prayer and mortifications produces an inner weariness about being too close to the Lord.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“Conscience is always enlightened when sin is seen as hurting someone we love. No sin can touch one of God’s stars or silence one of His words, but it can cruelly wound His heart. Once the Penitent understands this truth, he can see why he has such emptiness and desolation and his soul: he hurt the one he loves.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“Judas took the money back to the temple priests. So is it always. When we give up our Lord for any earthly thing sooner or later it disgusts us; we no longer wanted it.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own

“It was only after Adam and Eve had by sin lost the inner effulgence of grace that they became conscious of the fact that they were naked. They felt the need for clothes to cover their newfound shame; previously their bodies had Glowed with a man mantle of charity woven by the fingers of God. It is almost universally true that excessive external display betrays an inner poverty and nakedness of the soul”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own